Tocumwal Airport is a weather station located 114 m above sea level, 3 km from Tocumwal. Its records go back to 1898: 35 years of temperature are available up to 2020, along with rainfall and a comparison with two reference normals. Closed series: the records of this station end in 2020. Over the whole series (35 years) the annual mean temperature there is 16.4 °C; the 1961–1990 and 1991–2020 reference periods are not documented well enough for a comparison. The warmest year of the series is 2007 (17.6 °C) and the coldest 1992 (15.3 °C). The last complete year, 2019, ranks 17 out of 35, from warmest to coldest. Over 1961–2020, the annual mean temperature changes by +0.07 °C per decade. The station ranks 210 out of 227 stations, from the fastest rise to the slowest.
Annual mean temperature since 1898
The first ten years of the series (1971–1980) average 16.4 °C; the last ten (2007–2019) average 16.7 °C, a difference of +0.2 °C. Of the ten warmest years in the series, 4 fall after 1999. The warmest is 2007 (17.6 °C). The ten-year running mean peaks at 16.7 °C (2015) and bottoms out at 16.0 °C (1993).
Annual rainfall since 1898
On average 450 mm of rain falls per year over the 101 documented years. The wettest year, 1973, received 874 mm; the driest, 1982, only 191 mm, which is 4.6 times less. The 1991–2020 normal (435 mm per year) is 34 mm (7.2 %) below the 1961–1990 one (469 mm). Over 1991–2020, November is on average the wettest month (42 mm) and April the driest (30 mm). Between 2001 and 2020, 8 years out of 20 exceeded the series average.
Monthly normals: 1961–1990 against 1991–2020
The table compares, month by month, the mean temperature and the rainfall total of two thirty-year reference periods. The difference column shows what the recent period changes compared with the earlier one.
| Month | Temp. 1961–1990 | Temp. 1991–2020 | Difference | Rain 1961–1990 | Rain 1991–2020 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.6 °C | 24.7 °C | +1.1 °C | 41 mm | 31 mm | −10 mm |
| February | 23.9 °C | 23.7 °C | −0.2 °C | 23 mm | 36 mm | +13 mm |
| March | 21.2 °C | 20.4 °C | −0.8 °C | 34 mm | 32 mm | −2 mm |
| April | 16.6 °C | 16.1 °C | −0.5 °C | 39 mm | 30 mm | −9 mm |
| May | 12.9 °C | 12.2 °C | −0.7 °C | 48 mm | 34 mm | −14 mm |
| June | 9.3 °C | 9.6 °C | +0.3 °C | 34 mm | 40 mm | +6 mm |
| July | 8.6 °C | 8.8 °C | +0.2 °C | 44 mm | 38 mm | −6 mm |
| August | 10.3 °C | 9.8 °C | −0.5 °C | 49 mm | 37 mm | −12 mm |
| September | – | 12.4 °C | – | 41 mm | 41 mm | 0 mm |
| October | 15.7 °C | 16.0 °C | +0.3 °C | 45 mm | 35 mm | −10 mm |
| November | 19.3 °C | 19.5 °C | +0.2 °C | 36 mm | 42 mm | +6 mm |
| December | 21.9 °C | – | – | 35 mm | 39 mm | +4 mm |
For rainfall, the largest difference is in February (+13 mm) and the smallest in May (−14 mm).
Records at Tocumwal Airport
- Warmest year: 17.6 °C, in 2007
- Coldest year: 15.3 °C, in 1992
- Driest year: 191 mm, in 1982
- Wettest year: 874 mm, in 1973
- Warmest month: 28.7 °C, in January 2019
- Coldest month: 6.9 °C, in July 1982
- Wettest month: 236 mm, in January 1974
- Hottest day: 46.5 °C, on 25 January 2019
- Coldest day: −4.8 °C, on 18 June 1998
- Heaviest rain in one day: 98.3 mm, on 13 May 1918
2.3 °C separate the warmest year of the series from the coldest. Between the hottest and the coldest day on record, the range reaches 51.3 °C.
Temperature trend over 1961–2020
The regression line of annual mean temperature changes by +0.07 °C per decade between 1961 and 2020, about +0.4 °C over the whole period. That is slower than the median of the 227 stations (+0.19 °C per decade), by 0.12 °C per decade: the station ranks 210 out of 227.
Data source and licence
Data source: Bureau of Meteorology (ACORN-SAT) and NOAA NCEI (GHCN-Daily) (dataset “ACORN-SAT v2 daily (homogenised) + GHCN-Daily”), licence CC BY 4.0; Public domain (NOAA NCEI). Last updated: 29 October 2026.
The data for Tocumwal Airport are shown as the source publishes them; this site does not correct them. A year is kept only if at least eleven months of measurements are available, and a normal is computed only with at least twenty years of data out of its thirty. Temperatures are rounded to 0.1 °C and rainfall to the millimetre. The station is one of 227 stations in Australia: the overview page lets you compare them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the annual mean temperature at Tocumwal Airport?
Over the whole series (35 years), the annual mean temperature at Tocumwal Airport is 16.4 °C.
What is the warmest year ever measured at Tocumwal Airport?
Since records began in 1898, the warmest year at Tocumwal Airport is 2007, at 17.6 °C on average. The coldest is 1992 (15.3 °C).
Is the climate at Tocumwal Airport getting warmer?
Yes: at Tocumwal Airport, the annual mean temperature rises by 0.07 °C per decade between 1961 and 2020, +0.4 °C in total. 4 of the 10 warmest years in the series fall after 1999.
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